THREAD. One of the most dangerous forms of modern copaganda is claiming “even liberals are doing it” when talking about something monstrous and authoritarian.
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First, there is nothing “liberal” about the current SF ruling class. It has among the most authoritarian local government officials I have tracked in my 15 years. The DA and Mayor and former police PR head on the County Board are backed by Republican billionaires.
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Second, the politics of the city have changed a great deal. It is dominated by real estate and tech money pushing alarming policies designed to make the city a haven for the global rich by cleansing it from people the deem undesirable.
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Third, it’s false for the NYT to assert SF has been “progressive” on drugs historically. It has ruthlessly pursued human caging and the war on drugs for decades. This statement is just false. It’s designed to make people think progressive policies have been tried and failed.
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Fourth, the empirical evidence is clear that the war on drugs is a massive failure. And the historical evidence is overwhelming that SF has never meaningfully invested in other public health policies to even attempt a non-punishment approach. It’s all just a violent joke.
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Finally, the function of news reporting like this is to make people think the universe of reasonable good faith solutions have been tried that compassionate liberals have reluctantly concluded even they must embrace state violence/human caging as only possible solution to drugs.
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Whenever someone tells you that U.S. policies have been “liberal” or “progressive” in any major city or state in the last 50 years, here are some points to discuss with them:
THREAD. As we hit an unprecedented 100,000 drug overdose deaths, I answer the following question in this thread on the "War on Drugs": are punishment bureaucrats incompetent at achieving their goals, or are they pursuing goals that are different from what they tell us publicly?
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@equalityAlec
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The whole "radical left" is such a psyop considering today's Democrats are far RIGHT of Eisenhower.
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I live in Oregon and I am so sad to see Measure 110 get repealed. You can't choose not to fund treatment, then claim it didn't work.
Or rather, you can, it's just not giving it a real shot.
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That’s also the purpose of “centrist” pundits mainstreaming authoritarian ideas. “eventhulibral” Matt Y agrees!
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